Grimm's Fairy Stories, Hansel and Grethel, sentence 96

And now, as there was nothing to fear, they went into the witch's house, where in every corner were caskets full of pearls and precious stones. "

Who acts: nothing, birds · What happens: be, fear, go · To what, where: house, corner caskets

This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Hansel and Grethel. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing, birds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 went	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 now	punct
4	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 was	mark
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 was	expl
6	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	advcl
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 was	nsubj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fear	mark
9	fear	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nothing	acl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 was	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	into	into	ADP	_	17 house	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 witch	det
15	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 house	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 witch	case
17	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 caskets	punct
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 caskets	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 corner	case
21	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	22 corner	det
22	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 caskets	compound
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 caskets	cop
24	caskets	casket	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 house	appos
25	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 caskets	amod
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 pearls	case
27	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 full	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stones	cc
29	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stones	amod
30	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 pearls	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct
32	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past	nothing		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fear	to-infinitive	nothing not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	go	past	birds = bird		the witch's house	now	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location
4	is a	past		corner caskets			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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